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ituft 6 - BOOK 80 9 they have been doing, but he just would like to see.more of the tourist -oriented business of the community -go through a central director and not leave the door open where we are going to have different directors for different functions as far as tourism . goes. Commissioner. Scurlock advised that he has the same concern about a paid director as Commissioner Wheeler. Chairman Eggert stated that her problem is that we desig- nated the Chamber of Commerce to lead us with the tourism things and yet we expect them to do it without the appropriate funding. She felt that is shackling what we are trying to do. Commissioner Wheeler explained that the original reason he asked for the Chamber to be the Tourist Bureau was the fact that they were already set up; they had the statistics, etc., and it supplemented what they were doing and helped them promote tourism, but he is not convinced at this point that they are all encompassing and need a full time director to handle just tourism. He would be more comfortable with it if we had a central tourist bureau and everything tourist -oriented came through that bureau. Chairman Eggert asked if the Committee were opposed to having everything go through th.e Chamber, and Commissioner Wheeler advised that they were, and the fact that this is not happening this year in any event is why he is uncomfortable with funding a full time director. Commissioner Scurlock expressed his concurrence with Commis- sioner Wheeler. He believed that we can look at this position again next year, and in the meantime, he does see putting money into parking. Chairman Eggert suggested a compromise with only half of the money going back for the parking, but Commissioner Wheeler did not feel you can have half a director. He noted that the money we have available is very close, and the City has a 3 -year program he happens to support. 38